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Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> Neat, it only fetches tags that refer to things we already have. Hadn't
> checked what the automatic tag fetcher was doing.
>
> So either introduce temporary local refs that can be removed once the
> tags have been fetched,...

I think it is enough just to disable tag following when you are
promiscuously fetching.  That is, do the tag following only if
the main fetch is going to store a ref because it has tracking
branch for the remote side.  Otherwise the remote tags do not
matter and if you really care about them you can ask with --tags.